Investigations
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Bayelsa’s Boat-Riding Kidnappers And Towns Facing Abandonment
One evening in 2013, as Dauglas Augusta Apaga, 59, was preparing to close her shop at the Ogbia Town market,…
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A Triad Of Nightmares Shadows Farmers Surviving The Boko Haram Crisis
Sometimes the cost of working on a farm in Borno could be as simple as struggling to source agricultural resources…
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The Day ‘Peacekeeping’ Troops Became Murderous In Nigeria’s Cross River Community
Isoko Eta, 42, sat quietly in front of his burnt house. He had just swept the surroundings of his late…
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Resettled IDPs In Borno Community Are Crossing To Cameroon For Potable Water
One of the consequences of the Boko Haram insurgency in Nigeria is that families get separated across states ‒ and…
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Someone Is Stealing Babies From Displaced Mothers In Northeastern Nigeria
When she first went to the hospital after enduring the first phase of contractions, her back aching so much she…
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Life Under Bridge: The Hard Realities Of Displaced Nigerians In Lagos
Adedokun Olatundun, 65, lost her husband and three of six children to the age-long communal crisis between Offa and Erin-Ile…
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Ikeja Bomb Blast: Buried Hopes And Fresh Wounds 20 Years After
Though the rain had just fallen and a cool breeze passed under the trees, it was not enough to calm…
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Nigeria’s Deradicalisation Programme For Terrorists Has No Place For Women
She has a quiet demeanour about her. Nothing in her stature lets on the power she wields among the other…
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The Drug And Sex Lives Of Boko Haram Terrorists
One hot night in the deep forests of Sambisa, in northeastern Nigeria, shortly after a military airstrike targeted the settlement…
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How Mobile Financial Service Providers Rob Borno IDPs Of Much-Needed Aid
The lack of effective oversight from aid organisations in Northeast Nigeria has made it easy for poor internally displaced persons…
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